HBO has started to put the pilot episodes on YouTube. I couldn’t be happier with this. If only they allowed me to pay for just HBO Go then I would be ecstatic. The first show is Girls and it is actually pretty good. Judd Apatow produced it and it definitely has his signature on it.

Apple, publishers to settle e-books price-fixing suit by Joe Aimonetti  According to Reuters’ sources, Amazon (as well as consumers in general) stand to gain the most from this settlement. Amazon could sell e-books cheaper, making its Kindle hardware more attractive for potential tablet buyers, and if the prices on Amazon fall, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and [...]

Kanye West has a new project and it is WHODAT.biz. It just shows plain old whois data. http://whodat.biz/#ngetchell.com

Sorry for not posting often. I’ve been busy with work, homework and my quest to reread the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The Kindle says I’m 34% through A Game of Thrones.  I can’t wait for the HBO show to continue back. I’m sure between that and Mad Men returning this weekend I will [...]

Buford, Wyoming Put On Sale By Sole Resident Don Sammons Funny, when I visited the guy mentioned how he was the dictator, not the mayor.

DoJ warning means one thing: E-book prices are coming down By Mathew Ingram The rumblings about Apple and the possible anti-competitive nature of its deal with book publishers over “agency model” pricing have turned into an all-out roar, with the news that the Department of Justice has warned the various parties about an impending antitrust lawsuit. [...]

Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances  The promise is that low-cost gene sequencing will lead to a new era of personalized medicine, yielding new approaches for treating cancers and other serious diseases. The arrival of such cures has been glacial, however, although the human genome was originally sequenced more than a [...]

Maxis announces new SimCity for 2013 By Kyle Orland “The rumors are true. SimCity is back.” So said Maxis senior VP Lucy Bradshaw by way of announcing a new PC title in the seminal city-building series for a 2013 release. I will spare no expense to buy this.

The Oatmeal on Piracy This needs reading by everyone. Cutting the supply of media to people is not creating more money, it is creating new avenues for content to get to people for free. The growing popularity of podcasts and internet TV channels are a direct result of the democratization of media. My advice to [...]

A battery breakthrough that could bring electric cars to the masses Katie Fehrenbacher  A startup working on battery technology says it’s developed a key breakthrough that could one day lead to an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000. I swear, if I didn’t have a cottage that required [...]